Original title: All-Russian Industrial and Art Exhibition of 1896 in Nizhny NovgorodYear: 1896. Author: Team of Authors. Custodian: Russian National Library . Genre: Historical Chronicle . Publisher: St. Petersburg, Hermann Hoppe Publishing House . Series: Appendix to the magazine "World Illustration" for 1896. Language: Russian (pre-reform), Description: XVI All-Russian Art and Industrial Exhibition held in 1896. in Nizhny Novgorod, became the largest in pre-revolutionary Russia. Previous industrial exhibition was held in Moscow in 1882. Such events were initially held in Russian capitals, but since 1896 they began to be held in major regional centers of the empire, which made a huge contribution to the economy and welfare of the whole country. The first such center was Nizhny Novgorod .. The exhibition was designed to take stock of the country's economic development and give impetus to its further development, as well as to demonstrate the achievements of Russian industry with the aim of concluding new foreign loans and trade agreements. 20 departments were presented at the exhibition, each of which was devoted to its own topics: handicrafts, agriculture, trade with China and Japan, etc. d. The general public was shown the most interesting novelties from various industries of industrial production and art. Presentation of the world's first hyperboloid tower B. G. Shukhov, shown the first Russian car . It was observed in action personally by Nicholas II .. The Kaslin Iron Works and the Kuznetsov porcelain company, which presented their works at the exhibition in their own pavilions, were awarded the highest award - the right to stamp the State Emblem on products .. Exhibits of the pavilion "Moscow" showed achievements in the field of urban improvement, education and charity The exhibition became an indicator of the economic power, high level of industrial development of Russia; it exhibited products of domestic and foreign companies, new technologies and new machines (including the first car Yakovlev and Frese). Both academics and Wanderers (A.) were represented in the art department. Arkhipov, I. Shishkin, V. Serov). The conflict between them occurred due to the exposure of M. In. Vrubel - "Princess Greza" and "Mikula Selianinovich" , after which C. and . Mammoths built a separate building for them at the entrance to the exhibition . Special pavilions at the exhibition had K. Makovsky (for the picture The appeal of Minin to the people), F. Rubo (for panorama Taking aul Ahulgo ).